inganielsen's CGPortoflio Gallery

The Bridge

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:47:42 +0000

Original resolution: 7000x4670pixel

This image is done in Photoshop. It is mainly brushwork on the rocks and some textures in the front. On the trees and everything else, I did not use textures.

It is a fantasy theme again and I worked on it in the past two months. I kept the saturation low, except of the womans red belt and the light she has with her.

Thanks for your comments

City In The Clouds

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:37:41 +0000

Resolution: 6400x4800

This is a matte painting. I used Terragen to render a scene for the cliff and mountains and parts of the sky. Then I worked in Photoshop CS3 to create the cityscape and rocks and clouds and stars etc.
I often call my work Science-Fiction but this piece is one of the most Sci-Fi like images I did.

Thanks for viewing and thanks for comments!

Colors Of The Storm

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:00:06 +0000

Resolution: 7000x4670

Another alien biotope. I enjoyed creating these alien plants. Some of them are huge balls filled with some gas which makes them light and lets them float in the air. When they are old enough and the wind gets strong, the ribbons snap and the wind carries them across the planet. That is the way they multiply.

There are lots of details in this image which get lost in this resolution. Here are some of them:
www.gatetonowhere.de/tuts/wip1/wip12_details.jpg

And there is also a Work in Progress Thread in the Terradreams.de - Forum:
www.terradreams.de/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10334

Wheel Of Fire

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:36:59 +0000

Resolution: 7000x4670pxl

This is my second galaxy. Galxies are beautiful and not easy to do. It took days until if looked like it does now. First I had it in red, but when I changed the color I saw, that blue is more natural to it and makes it look more real.

Sailing The Desert

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:44:05 +0000

Resolution: 6400x4800

Now something surreal. I used a terrage-render for the terrain, the rest is done in Photoshop.

This ship is on a trip to an unknown destination, far beyond the borders of this desert. It has never seen water(except of rain perhaps) and it is never to see any water.

Alien Biotope

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:07:59 +0000

Resolution: 6400x4800

I used a basic Terragen-Render to start from. The sky is unchanged. I used some textures for the lake and the rock on the right.

This Shows an alien world full of life. There are several plant species and some animals. I wanted to do this for a long time.

You cannot see much of the details in this resolution. Some details are shown in this detailed view:

http://www.gatetonowhere.de/images/alien_biotope_details.jpg

Life

Mon, 26 May 2008 15:02:31 +0000

Original resolution: 6400x4800pxl

This is a remake of an old image, called Life, which you can see in the galleries at my homepage.

The basic scene is rendered in Terragen.
I used photos to make parts of the rock look more realistic. Other parts are painted. The sky also got some changes and parts of the clouds close to the light source are photos.

The tree is painted. I had no graphics tablet when I painted the first one and I did not like it anymore.

Thanks for viewing and thanks for comments!

Eclipse

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:46:34 +0000

Original resolution: 6400x4800pxl

The image is painted in Photoshop and the sky gradient rendered in Terragen.

I wanted to put an alien creature in one of my alien landscapes and I think, this is not the last one
This one left its village this afternoon and is surprised to see the sun covered by something... A cool wind came with the shadow and all beasts became silent.

Fire in the Land of Shadows

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:16:29 +0000

resolution: 6400x4800

This landscape is a combination of several Terragen-renders and painting. One part of the terrain is Terragen 2 and one Terragen 0.9. The rest, parts of the surface, rocks etc, Stars, mist, meteorites and illumination is painted. The planet has a surface which is a terrain rendered in Terragen 0.9.

Memories

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:16:05 +0000

Original resolution: 6400x4800

Done in Photoshop and Terragen.

I started with a Terragen-Scene. The foreground is entirely overpainted and parts of the water(flat parts) got a Terragen- and a photo-texture. Rays and mountains far away are Terragen and the clouds are partly Terragen, Photo and painted

Galaxy Rise

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:14:14 +0000

Original resolution: 6400x4800 pxl

This began as a study of a galaxy, viewed from the side, like we see the Milky Way. I tried to make a Milky Way a few years ago and wanted to optimise it.
Well, the Galaxy alone looked a little boring and needed a foreground. This was done in Photoshop as well. I started with a simple Terragen render es reference for colors and shapes but I do not see much of it anymore Even the surface is changed and got some textures to make it look a little more sandy.

Sorry for high compression. The stars and the sparkling sand(only visible in higher resolution) make the file a little too large.

Looking Towards Home

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:30:02 +0000

Resolution: 5906x3937pxl
Time: 3 days

This is at least 80% Photoshop and less than 20% Terragen and I think its best place is the 2d-gallery.
I used the terragen scene as reference and painted it over(not everything). The large rock has its reference at Lanzarote I love its alien like shape and just had to integrate it in to one of my images.

Summer Song

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:07:26 +0000

Original resolution: 5906x3937 pixels

Painted in Photoshop without the use of photos and photo-textures. I created a texture for the tree bark in photoshop to give it some more details.

I intended to paint something "treeish" and although I love the winter, I had to paint something warm.

Reign of Fire

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:27:23 +0000

The image is painted in Photoshop. In the beginning I did no know how to make it and I rendered an image in Terragen. This did not do it at all in so I overpainted it.
95% of the image are painted with brushes(the sun with the help of a "differencial clouds-filter" and a warp-filter) and 5% are remnants of Terragen which I used as textures.

The is the Terragen-Image:

[HTML] Terragen-render
[/HTML]

For the moon in the sky I used a Terragen-Texture es well.

What you see here is a planet surrounding an active M-Star(cooler than the sun) in a close orbit. At least as far as I imagine it to look like
Because of the heat of the sun the surface melts and gets solid again.

Blue Moon

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:06:27 +0000

Blue Moon is her name and for she knows who hunts her, she will never forget her sword.

The image is painted in Photoshop and its original size is 8000x6000pxl. I used no foto-elements and the texture on the street is rendered in Terragen.

As the image is very large, here there is a close up of Blue Moon's face(still at 65%):

Face Detail

Deep in the Woods

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:54:44 +0000

That is where I want to be.

I pained this old forest in photoshop with my graphics tablet. It took me a long time to finish it. I made the first sketch one year ago and I gave up, when it came to the leaves
Yesterday I found some patience to paint them.

I love trees and this won't be the last forest image I paint

Sands of Time

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:57:55 +0000

Done with Terragen and Photoshop. In this image I used photos for the sky and parts of the sand in the foreground. The tree, the birds and some details are painted with a Graphics Tablet.

I wanted to create a calm and peaceful place, far far away from everything, for I had a lot of things to do the last few weeks. It was my attempt to relax

Original resolution: 6400x4800pxl

The Step Beyond

Mon, 28 May 2007 15:36:56 +0000

Original Resolution: 6506x3880 pxl
Painted in Photoshop with a graphics tablet

My intention was to paint an abandoned, surreal city. It is some sort of fusion of civilization and nature. The last human being just left.
Why it did this, is left to your interpretation

Waldgeist

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:10:33 +0000

This is painted in Photoshop with a graphics tablet.
Original resolution: 6400x4800pxl

Actually I wanted to paint a Woodelf but it has become something else. I called it Waldgeist (Woodspirit), and I think it fits better

Detailview of her face:

http://nielsen.sp01.ab-webspace.de/images/waldgeist_detail.jpg

Flowers

Fri, 04 May 2007 18:50:34 +0000

Original Resolution: 7000x4670

Actually this is not just 2d. The background:

click

is rendered in Terragen 2. The Rest is painted in Photoshop.

The idea was to draw a "spot of life" into a desolate landscape. Initially I wanted to call it "when it rains" but I think the simple title lieke "Flowers" fits better.

Thank you for your comments

The Secret

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:16:02 +0000

Painted in Photoshop(5906x3937pxl).

This is just one of three variations of an image which you can see at my website.

The original idea was to paint a tree in a wall of rock. I like trees so much, that I desided to make of it a portrait of a tree. I changed the color and illumination and got three differently colored images.

The Dream

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:34:54 +0000

This is a little older(august 2006), but I want it in my CGS-Gallery
It has been my first attempt to paint an indoor-scene and to paint a human.
I painted it with my mouse. In the meantime I got a graphics tablet
I used textures for the walls.

To understand why it is called "the dream", you need to take a look at the reflections.

Original resolution: 6400x3865

Colors

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:58:21 +0000

I've done this one to exercise painting hair und coloring skin. Critique is most welcome

Original resolution: 2692x3597. Done with a graphics tablet.

I did not think of anything special when painting it. I simply wanted to create something colorful.

Empress of the Skies

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:22:05 +0000

I let this be my first submission to these galleries.

No copy and paste. Every feather is unique! It took me more that a month to paint it.

I wrote a small walkthrough for this work, which can be viewed here:

http://nielsen.sp01.ab-webspace.de/index.php?link=tuts&tut=empress

Thanks for feedback!

Empress of the Skies

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:02:01 +0000

I let this be my first submition to these galleries.

No copy and paste. Every feather is unique! It took me more that a month to paint it.

I wrote a small walkthrough for this work, which can be viewed here:

http://nielsen.sp01.ab-webspace.de/index.php?link=tuts&tut=empress

Thanks for feedback!